Data for a project focused on accuracy development in L2 Spanish preterit-imperfect marking
| Code | Description |
|---|---|
| Corpus | The corpus from which the data was sourced. |
| Text_ID | The identifying key for each text analyzed. |
| Participant_ID | The identifying key for each participant. Note, this code was only used for the CEDEL2 data because every text in COWS-L2H came from a unique participant. Hence, the 'Text_ID' is equivalent to the 'Participant_ID' for the COWS-L2H data. |
| Course_Level | The course in which the student was enrolled when they produced the text. Note, this code was only used for the COWS-L2H data because all of the students derived from the same university; the CEDEL2 students are from various different universities. |
| Proficiency | The Spanish proficiency level of the participants. |
| Modality | Spoken or written- the modality in which the text was produced. |
| Token | The token (form) produced. |
| Lemma | The lemma of the token produced. |
| Appropriate, Ambiguous, Inappropriate | In these cells, we marked a '1' to classify the tense-aspect use in question as appropriate, inappropriate or ambiguous (i.e., we were unable to determine its appropriateness). |
| Marked_form | The tense-aspect classification of the token produced. |
| Obligatory_form | The tense-aspect classification of what should have been produced in that context (i.e., what is obligatory for suppliance). |
| Marked_form_simplified | Same as 'Form,' but with only 4 levels: preterit, imperfect, present, or other. |
| Obligatory_form_simplified | Same as 'Obligatory_form,' but with only 4 levels: preterit, imperfect, present, or other. |
| Frequency | The log-transformed, summed token frequencies of all preterit and imperfect forms of each lemma. Frequency data was extracted from the EsPal corpus (Duchon et al., 2013). |
| Regularity | The morphological regularity of the verb in the preterit or imperfect, based on Camps (2005). |
Minnillo, S., Sánchez-Gutiérrez, C., Ruiz, A., Morgan, E. & González, C. (2024). Predictors of accuracy in L2 Spanish preterit-imperfect production. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 10(2).